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[dholtz@internic.net: NSI Bulletin 098-006 | InterNIC Power Outage]
by Jay R. Ashworth 20 Mar '98

20 Mar '98

No doubt this will show up here shortly, but am I the only one who finds this hilariously typical. -----Forwarded message from "David H. Holtzman" <dholtz(a)internic.net>----- Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 14:50:56 -0500 From: "David H. Holtzman" <dholtz(a)internic.net> Subject: NSI Bulletin 098-006 | InterNIC Power Outage In the continuing process to upgrade facilities, the InterNIC will be patching in an auixllary backup power supply resulting in a loss of power to non-essential services at the InterNIC. The outage will begin at 12am EST and should end at 3am EST on March 21, 1998. The following services will stay up during the outage period: - All Root Zones - All RS Services except for the Online Payment Server(OLPS) - All Ticketing Services - Network Solutions, Inc homepage located at www.netsol.com All other services will be down including all WorldNIC Services located at www.worldnic.com Any changes to this plan will appear at the WorldNIC web site located at www.worldnic.com while services are down. Thanks for your patience. David Holtzman _____________________________________ David H. Holtzman (dholtz(a)internic.net) Sr Vice President of Engineering Network Solutions, Inc. -----End of forwarded message----- www.worldnic.com will be down... and if we change anything, we'll put it on the site at www.worldnic.com. Did I get that right, David? Cheers, - jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra(a)baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com

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The Cidr Report
by Tony Bates 20 Mar '98

20 Mar '98

This is an auto-generated mail on Fri Mar 20 12:00:00 PST 1998 It is not checked before it leaves my workstation. However, hopefully you will find this report interesting and will take the time to look through this to see if you can improve the amount of aggregation you perform. The report is split into sections: 0) General Status List the route table history for the last week, list any possibly bogus routes seen and give some status on ASes. 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level This lists the "Top 30" players who if they decided to aggregate their announced classful prefixes at the origin AS level could make a significant difference in the reduction of the current size of the Internet routing table. This calculation does not take into account the inclusion of holes when forming an aggregate so it is possible even larger reduction should be possible. 2) Weekly Delta A summary of the last weeks changes in terms of withdrawn and added routes. Please note that this is only a snapshot but does give some indication of ASes participating in CIDR. Clearly, it is generally a good thing to see a large amont of withdrawls. 3) Interesting aggregates Interesting here means not an aggregate made as a set of classful routes. Thanks to xara.net for giving me access to their routing tables once a day. Please send any comments about this report directly to me. Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr-report.html for a daily update of this report. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CIDR REPORT for 20Mar98 0) General Status Table History ------------- Date Prefixes 130398 51228 140398 51211 150398 50931 160398 50729 170398 49792 180398 49992 190398 49667 200398 49893 Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr.plot.html for a plot of the table history. Possible Bogus Routes --------------------- AS Summary ---------- Number of ASes in routing system: 3346 Number of ASes announcing only one prefix: 1576 (819 cidr, 757 classful) Largest number of cidr routes: 447 announced by AS3561 Largest number of classful routes: 1034 announced by AS701 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level --- 20Mar98 --- ASnum NetsNow NetsCIDR NetGain % Gain Description For the rest of the previous weeks gain information please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html 2) Weekly Delta Please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html for this part of the report 3) Interesting aggregates Please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html for this part of the report

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NSI Bulletin 098-006 | InterNIC Power Outage
by David H. Holtzman 20 Mar '98

20 Mar '98

In the continuing process to upgrade facilities, the InterNIC will be patching in an auixllary backup power supply resulting in a loss of power to non-essential services at the InterNIC. The outage will begin at 12am EST and should end at 3am EST on March 21, 1998. The following services will stay up during the outage period: - All Root Zones - All RS Services except for the Online Payment Server(OLPS) - All Ticketing Services - Network Solutions, Inc homepage located at www.netsol.com All other services will be down including all WorldNIC Services located at www.worldnic.com Any changes to this plan will appear at the WorldNIC web site located at www.worldnic.com while services are down. Thanks for your patience. David Holtzman _____________________________________ David H. Holtzman (dholtz(a)internic.net) Sr Vice President of Engineering Network Solutions, Inc.

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Re: IP over SONET considered harmful?
by Sean M. Doran 20 Mar '98

20 Mar '98

| >(b) talk to your favorite vendor(s), and ask the vendor(s) to put | > a "knob" that would decrement IP TTL by 1 on egress (rather | > than copying Tag TTL into IP TTL). | | Quite. mpls allow-longer-forwarding-loops Sean.

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Nanog Dearborn
by Harold Willison 20 Mar '98

20 Mar '98

Alex, Did you mean Detroit Metro airport or Detroit City Airport? Metro Airport should be your first choice. It is within 10 minutes driving time. City airport is much a smaller airport a bit further away. Still not too far away via I-94. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Harold Willison AGIS Network Engineering | * Network Engineer 313-730-5151 * | News Admin. 313-730-1130 | | news(a)agis.net 24 hours a day, 7 days a week | * harold(a)agis.net noc(a)agis.net * | <bold><italic> <underline>http://www.agis.net</underline></italic></bold> |<bold><italic> </italic></bold>\*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*/

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NANOG Dearborn
by Alex Rubenstein 20 Mar '98

20 Mar '98

How far is the Detroit Airport from Dearborn?

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Re: IP over SONET considered harmful?
by Havard.Eidnes＠runit.sintef.no 20 Mar '98

20 Mar '98

> I consider Windows 95 to be the least common denominator, > which has a default IP TTL of 32. Yes, 32. So that implies > that each NSP should decrement no less than 8 TTLs. That's broken. I quote from RFC 1340, dated July 1992: The current recommended default time to live (TTL) for the Internet Protocol (IP) [45,105] is 64. This does not change reality, of course, but it also does not make it less broken. - Håvard

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Re: Internic hosage
by Dean Robb 20 Mar '98

20 Mar '98

At 19:02 3/18/98 -0500, you wrote: >I'm still shocked that it took 4 days to motify my NIC Handle. Why? I've got email from their brass admitting that their PGP authentication doesn't work; you can register using any name, city, phone number or DNS server you want (whether they exist or not; you don't even have to use numbers in the phone number area); they refuse to administer WhoIs in any manner whatsoever; they can't even afford anyone to answer the phones anywhere but on the payment lines. It shouldn't surprise you that it took 4 days...it should surprise you that you were able to do it at all. Spam: it's not just for breakfast anymore.... Dean Robb PC-Easy On-site computer services (757) 495-EASY [3279]

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New Mailing List... anyone?
by Adam Rothschild 20 Mar '98

20 Mar '98

Everyone: As of late, I've given some serious thought to creating a new mailing list, titled "inet-complaints" or "inet-emergencies" (or some name that's better sounding but indicates the same topic :)... As the name suggests, this would be a place to direct complaints about outages/providers/etc (when ordinary support channels fail)... and hopefully for qualified people to lurk and offer asisstance. I for one could really benefit from such a list, and I'm sure many others could, as well. If anyone has organizational ideas, or would consider hosting the sucker, please let me know. Regards, Adam

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ISP comparisons
by william＠pacific.net.ph 20 Mar '98

20 Mar '98

Hi! Just wondering if any of you have any comparative analysis of MCI vs. Sprint vs. AT&T vs. UUNet. I'm doing a research on this currently. Please reply privately to william(a)pacific.net.ph. Thanks! William

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